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Speaker 1: Pushkin. On a winter morning in twenty fifteen, an electrician

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Speaker 1: is murdered in a quiet Amsterdam suburb. It looks like

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Speaker 1: an assassination, but there's no motive. The Dutch police can't

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Speaker 1: figure out what's going on. Eventually, the killing leads investigators

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Speaker 1: into a web of cocaine loads, money laundering, and shadowy

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Speaker 1: government agencies that stretches from Dublin to Dubai. At the

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Speaker 1: center is a cocaine supercartel and a secret proxy war

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Speaker 1: between democracies and dictatorships. I'm Miles Johnson, and I'm an

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Speaker 1: investigative reporter for the Financial Times, and I've always really

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Speaker 1: been interested in the ways that crime and business me

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Speaker 1: because they always meet. Because crime is a business. The

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Speaker 1: global black market, it's worth trillions of dollars. It's this

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Speaker 1: vast ocean of shadow cash. We know it's there and

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Speaker 1: we can feel its impact, but it's often hard to see.

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Speaker 1: That makes reporting on it pretty tough. But occasionally you

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Speaker 1: can get a glimpse of what's happening under the surface.

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Speaker 1: A man in his fifties was shot with one bullet

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Speaker 1: in the head.

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Speaker 2: These are not no bedtime stories. This is getting real.

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Speaker 1: There's always an element of look, you don't know if

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Speaker 1: somebody behind that door has a gun.

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Speaker 3: It became clear to me as a prosecutor that what

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Speaker 3: they were doing is they were using the fighters as

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Speaker 3: a way to move money through the system.

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Speaker 2: We've got blog apacas from South America, look into London the.

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Speaker 1: Money, and then sometimes if you keep digging, you start

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Speaker 1: to see a much bigger pattern.

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Speaker 4: The cart tells they run these organizations like a Fortune

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Speaker 4: five hundred company in a sense of they want to

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Speaker 4: maximize profits and reduce risks.

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Speaker 2: All criminals ultimately wish and aim for becoming legitimate, to

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Speaker 2: transitioning into legitimate businessmen, bringing the wealth they make with them.

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Speaker 1: This season, on the multi award winning podcast Hot Money,

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Speaker 1: the Dubai supercartel, drug kingpins and murder brokers who are

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Speaker 1: thriving in a global order that seems to be breaking apart.

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Speaker 1: Hot Money, the New Narcos from Pushkin Industries and The

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Speaker 1: Financial Times out this December. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.